Older adults know AI is slop. They just like it
AI-generated singers, children, and even virtual lovers are providing seniors with comfort and companionship.
The open-source, DRM-free Open Printer shows off a working prototype
It's been many years since printing from a PC involved little more than buying a printer and some ink, then purchasing extra cartridges when needed. Today, the...
Iowa accuses Temu of collecting private consumer data.
Iowa says Temu and its Chinese-owned parent company open consumers up to spying by the Chinese government.
All smart TVs—from LG, Samsung, TCL, and other brands—collect personal data. Here's how to use privacy settings to limit surveillance.
TVs collect a huge amount of data. Here's how to use privacy settings to limit the surveillance on TVs from LG, Samsung, TCL, and every other big brand.
Bank of England handed powers to regulate key tech firms including Amazon and Google
Government has designated four major global cloud services and technology providers as Critical Third Parties (CTPs).
State Senator Pockets Massive Real Estate Fee From a $30M Data Center Land Sale, Then Introduces Bill to Fast-Track Development
PA Sen. Greg Rothman says while he did make money on the 2025 sale, he had nothing to do with the actual data center deal.
AI surveillance is being supercharged – and it will chill social progress
In the near future, AI-powered surveillance systems will be able to track everything we do in public, and much of what we do in private. And if we do something wrong—shoplift, litter, jaywalk, you name it—the system wil…
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0xmonti Android application for Proton Lumo.monti. Contribute to montinode/android-lumo development by creating an account on GitHub.
An Anti-License Manifesto
software licenses are unavoidably a legal tool. the legal system, in the US and approximately everywhere else, is not a machine that leads to justice. therefore, software licenses do not lead to justice.
Meta removes controversial AI feature on Instagram after backlash
"Our intent was to provide a useful creative tool and to give people control over whether their public content could be referenced in this way," the company said in a blog post. "We've heard the feedback that this featu…
Netflix hits upon revolutionary new concept: Live TV channels
Netflix hits upon revolutionary new concept: Live TV channels
Microsoft admits a Windows 11 bug is eating up to 500GB of storage, verify if you are affected.
Microsoft admits a Windows 11 bug is silently eating up to 500GB of your storage, fix coming July 14, 2026.
QuadRF can spot drones and see WiFi through my wall - Jeff Geerling
The QuadRF (pictured above) a phased-array radio built around a Raspberry Pi 5 and an FPGA board with picosecond-level timing. It does advanced signal processing and beamforming. It can see WiFi through walls and track …
The Backtick That (Almost) Broke Me: Fixing German XKB Dead Keys on Linux - André Klein Dot Net
Working on non-US keyboards can be challenging when common tools and specs expects standard layouts. For example, I use a German keyboard which has a bunch of "fun" quirks: Y...
A bug which only affected left-handed users – Terence Eden’s Blog
Verily, some of our brethren (and sistren) be afflicted with a sinister disposition. While the righteous scroll using the thumb of their right hand - as is good and proper - an accurs'd minority swing the other way. Loo…
Chat Control 1.0 passed the European Parliament — through the back door
A loophole in parliamentary procedure allowed MEPs to extend mass scanning of private communications until 2026 — without a direct vote on the substance of the law.
Claude Code Is Steganographically Marking Requests
I inspected Claude Code for privacy reasons and found hidden system prompt markers based on API base URL and timezone.
Just Pay the Subscription - by Dustin Bluck - Uncommon Apps
Subscription mobile apps are actually good and you should stop complaining
Wicklow hotel cancels ‘secretive’ Peter Thiel group conference
Powerscourt Hotel and Spa event was to be hosted by Dialog and attended by senior Nato commander and Trump administration officials
Predictions on they type of people the AI age will produce
What will differentiate people is not how smart they are but their relationship to mental effort.
Instagram and Facebook will likely require a redesign after EU rules they’re ‘addictive’
The addictive design threatens the ‘physical and mental wellbeing of users.’
It's not about physical vs digital games, it's about ownership
PlayStation announced that they will stop making discs. People are rightfully mad about this, but it's not actually about physical media. It's about owning your games.
[PDF] “God has helped us, and so will AI”: How the Terrorist Group Boko Haram Uses Frontier AI(4 Pages)
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Mayor Mamdani Announces Landmark "Click-To-Cancel" Consumer Protection Rules to Ban Subscription Traps and Junk Fees
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.
TIL cheap litter boxes are decapitating cats
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Chat control: what is in our politicians head?
On Tuesday, the European Parliament will vote on a request for urgent procedure aimed at reviving the previously rejected, indiscriminate mass surveillance of private communications ("Chat Control 1.0"). This move, push…
Why Vandal Savage Had To Win To Be Defeated | Justice League
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Your Home Network Might Be Hacked Right Now...
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Doctor Who Argues AI Art in 1979
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AI Actor Tilly Norwood To 'Star' In Feature Film 'Misaligned'
Controversial AI actor Tilly Norwood will 'star' in Misaligned, marking the first time she has lead a feature film.
You paid me, a long-time Linux user, to use Windows 11 exclusively for a month: here’s how it went
You all donated en masse to have me use Windows 11 for a month, and so I did. What was it like for a long-time Linux user to go back and experience Windows as it exists now? Is it really as bad as we’ve collectively mad…
Oregon Power company hikes data center bills by 30%, cuts residential electricity costs by 1.3%
Residents no longer have to shoulder the costs of developing the grid to accommodate these large power users.
OpenAI could reportedly run out of cash by mid-2027 — analyst paints grim picture after examining the company's finances
The circular economy might spiral into Sam Altman's garrote.
Valve open source the Steam Machine e-ink screen so you can make your own
While Valve will not be making and providing their own e-ink display for the Steam Machine, they have opened it up so anyone can now do it.
Game Overthinker: Plaguestation
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Patreon Blocks Crawlers From Stealing Creators' Work for AI Training
“Creators deserve credit, compensation, and consent. If that's not on the table, the crawlers can stay the fuck off Patreon," CEO Jack Conte wrote on Thursday.
How to Setup Authelia in Docker with SWAG Reverse Proxy (2026)
Stop exposing unsecured apps. Learn how to deploy Authelia in Docker with a KeyDB backend and SWAG to enforce centralized Multi-Factor Authentication.
Researchers discover Claude's secret thoughts – and how it lies and cheats
Researchers discover a consciousness-like area in Claude's neural network where it secretly thinks [--] and consciously manipulates tests.
Blood of the Dawnwalker is much more than its Witcher 3 inspirations (Hands-On Impressions)
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What Happened to tea.xyz
On June 4th, tea.xyz launched what it had been promising since 2022: a cryptocurrency that pays open source maintainers. Within the first hour of official trading, the token fell 75% from its opening price. A week later…
MIT researcher proposes a way to detect nuclear weapons in space
MIT Professor Areg Danagoulian is proposing a way to determine if a satellite orbiting Earth contains a nuclear weapon. He describes his idea for a satellite-based sensor system that could orbit close by a suspect satel…
Researchers find a way to reliably spot AI writing
As AI-generated fiction becomes increasingly prevalent, questions of authorship and originality are becoming central to how written work is evaluated. While most existing work in this space focuses on identifying surfac…
Wearing what you loot
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Ofcom fines porn site provider £630,000 over failed age checks
Ofcom has fined a slew of sites it says are failing to prevent children accessing their adult content.
Reusable rockets could turn orbit into military supply chain
Ten minutes after liftoff, SpaceX cut its own live feed on the Starfall demonstration flight. No orbit confirmation, no payload description, no further commentary. It was the kind of silence usually reserved for nationa…
TikTok users don't have as much agency over their FYPs as they think
The "not interested" feature is your friend, but users must intentionally and constantly curate their FYPs...
A Hacker's Arrest Reveals Microsoft Can Track Users Via a Windows Device ID
The FBI used a Microsoft device identifier, dubbed GDID, to link a teenager to a hack attributed to Scattered Spider, raising privacy red flags about Windows' surveillance capabilities.
John Deere owners will get the right to repair their own equipment under a new FTC settlement
The Federal Trade Commission, along with five states, secured an important settlement in an antitrust lawsuit against farm equipment manufacturer Deere & Company that will ensure farmers can en
Meta Buried Research Linking Instagram To Teen Harm While Facing $1.4 Trillion Penalty That Could Erase Its Entire Worth
Meta is accused of halting a study showing Facebook's negative mental health effects, as it faces a potential £1.05 trillion penalty from four US states over addictiveness claims.
Samsung passes Nvidia to become most profitable company in the world, notches 19x quarterly increase in profit
DS president Kim Yong-Kwan told staff the unit's 2026 operating profit will top everything it has earned since Samsung entered the memory business.